"I declare the 20th Winter Games closed. I call upon the youth of the world to assemble four years from now in Vancouver, to celebrate the 21st Olympic Winter Games."

-- Jacques Rogge

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“Even if our motives are presently misunderstood. We will reach the goal of freedom in Birmingham and all over the nation, because the goal of America is freedom.”
“Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.”
“Ambition is frequently the only refuge which life has left to the denied or mortified affections. We chide at the grasping eye, the daring wing, the soul that seems to thirst for sovereignty only, and know not that the flight of this ambitious bird has been from a bosom or home that is filled with ashes.”

Source : William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.74
“His father was no man's friend but his own, and he is no man's for else.”
“But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.”

Source : Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.18, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.
“I don't think I can be intimidated about working with any comedic actors. It felt great to get to play hardball with the big boys as they say.”
“Skepticism is the highest duty and blind faith the one unpardonable sin.”
“I was so obsessed with football that you could say I was taking the goal home with me at night. And then one day the system fell apart.”

Source : "'Goalkeepers Need an Element of Insanity'". Interview with Lothar Gorris and Dirk Kurbjuweit, www.spiegel.de. May 15, 2008.

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